re: Putin the Checkers Player

I’m just going to play it safe and assume the cancer thing is fake news, and that all we can do is guess and render expert opinions that suggest he’s in store for epic fail, but equally as possible is a scenario wherein as far as he/they are concerned, things are going relatively as they expected (or perhaps had contingency plans for most of these situations), and there are elements of the overall war plan that have yet to be executed which are more effective strategies that they’re reserving until key times a bit later in the game.

Since we’re only speculating, figured someone needed to throw caution to the wind with an against the grain take.